Tax Exemption Status for 501(c)3 Organizations

These memos are from a public policy class I took. Tax-­exemptions for non­‐profits exist so contributors have the added incentive to make donations. The government bestows tax-­exempt status with the assumption that these groups act in a nature that benefits the community more than it benefits the organization monetarily. An amendment to the tax code…

California Public Safety Realignment

When the real estate bubble peaked in 2007, California had its own unique housing bubble of 173,312 state penitentiary inmates that could not burst under the forces of a free market economy. The amount of inmates was over twice the amount (216%) of occupancy the prisons were designed to hold. Following a decision by the…